MailScanner on Mac OSX?

[John Rudd]

Or you could run it with sendmail.  Sendmail builds just fine on OS X.  
(I'm using mimedefang at home, where I'm using OSX as my mail server, 
though, so I don't have the mailscanner part of the puzzle available to 
help ... but I wouldn't expect it to be _any_ different than installing 
it on FreeBSD, except the startup scripting)


On Apr 3, 2006, at 7:40 AM, Alex Neuman van der Hans wrote:

> I once tried getting it to work on OS X Server, but gave up ;) - I 
> think it can be done, except I'm not very postfix-savvy.
>
> You *could*, however, run it using any Linux-for-Mac distro; I haven't 
> heard of any for the Intel Macs yet (if anybody knows, I'd appreciate 
> the heads-up), but if one's not available right now I suspect they 
> should be here RSN.
>
>
> Julian Field wrote:
>>
>> On 2 Apr 2006, at 22:40, James Gray wrote:
>>
>>> Hi All,
>>>
>>> I'm hoping I'm not about to "break new ground" :)  Has anyone got 
>>> any reports
>>> on using MailScanner on Mac OSX (Intel)?  I'm simplifying my network 
>>> at home
>>> with a Mac Mini (Core Duo thing) replacing 3 old tired PC's.
>>
>> There are a few people (and I mean _very_ few) doing this, after a 
>> guy at Sophos got it working on 10.3.
>>
>> It's one of the projects I want to get onto, and may be able to put 
>> in some time on it very soon.
>>
>> There are those 2 packaging systems (Fink and the other one I can't 
>> remember) which would provide an easy, though cumbersome, solution.
>>
>> Would that be good enough for now?
>>
>> What I really want is a system that uses launchd properly and at 
>> least has a system preference for starting and stopping it. 
>> Slimserver nearly does this, but in a pre-Tiger form, not using 
>> launchd. I would much rather "do it properly" than hack something 
>> together.
>>
>> If anyone can point me in the right direction, such as an example 
>> package that already does all this that I can plug into, that would 
>> be fantastic.
>>
>> But even working out how to program for launchd would be a start. The 
>> OSX way of booting appears to be very complicated, involving reams of 
>> XML.
>>
>> Sorry that doesn't really answer your question, but....
>>
>>>
>>> So far I've figured out that OSX is using Perl 5.8.6 and Postfix of 
>>> some
>>> flavour.  Does anyone have any pre-installation validation tools or 
>>> advice on
>>> what to expect?  I know OSX is BSD under the hood, but the directory
>>> structure is seriously weird for someone coming from a "pure" 
>>> Linux/BSD/Unix
>>> background.
>>>
>>> BTW - where the hell does OSX keep it's cron jobs and services?  
>>> I've got
>>> Apache+MySQL running on it but they both came with neato *.dmg
>>> packages....I'm a real OSX n00b I'm afraid :P  Unlike most n00b's 
>>> though I'm
>>> happy to work with Julian to get the bugs sorted and possibly create 
>>> a OSX
>>> "port" complete with dmg package etc....now THAT interests me!
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance.
>>>
>>> James
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